Paternal Family Tree: Cranfield
Maternal Family Tree: Anne Brett Countess Middlesex -1670
In 1599 [his father] Lionel Cranfield 1st Earl Middlesex [aged 24] and Elizabeth Sheppard were married.
Before 1621 [his father] Lionel Cranfield 1st Earl Middlesex [aged 45] and [his mother] Anne Brett Countess Middlesex were married.
In 1621 James Cranfield 2nd Earl Middlesex was born to Lionel Cranfield 1st Earl Middlesex [aged 46] and Anne Brett Countess Middlesex.
In July 1621 [his father] Lionel Cranfield 1st Earl Middlesex [aged 46] was created 1st Baron Cranfield of Cranfield in Bedfordshire.
In 1622 [his father] Lionel Cranfield 1st Earl Middlesex [aged 47] was created 1st Earl Middlesex. [his mother] Anne Brett Countess Middlesex by marriage Countess Middlesex.
Before 1637 [his brother-in-law] Richard Sackville 5th Earl Dorset [aged 14] and [his sister] Frances Cranfield Countess Dorset [aged 14] were married. She the daughter of [his father] Lionel Cranfield 1st Earl Middlesex [aged 61] and [his mother] Anne Brett Countess Middlesex. He the son of Edward Sackville 4th Earl Dorset [aged 45] and Mary Curzon Countess Dorset [aged 46].
Around 1645. Theodore Russel [aged 31]. Portrait of James Cranfield 2nd Earl Middlesex [aged 24].
On 6th August 1645 [his father] Lionel Cranfield 1st Earl Middlesex [aged 70] died. His son James [aged 24] succeeded 2nd Earl Middlesex, 2nd Baron Cranfield of Cranfield in Bedfordshire.
On 3rd March 1646 James Cranfield 2nd Earl Middlesex [aged 25] and Anne Bourchier Countess Middlesex [aged 15] were married. She by marriage Countess Middlesex. She the daughter of Edward Bourchier 4th Earl Bath and Dorothy St John Countess Bath. He the son of Lionel Cranfield 1st Earl Middlesex and Anne Brett Countess Middlesex.
Between 15th September 1648 and 27th November 1648 the Treaty of Newport attempted to reconcile King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland [aged 47] (who was imprisoned at nearby Carisbrooke Castle [Map]) with Parliament. Denzil Holles 1st Baron Holles [aged 48] and Henry Vane "The Younger" [aged 35] represented Parliament. James Butler 1st Duke Ormonde [aged 37] represented King Charles. The Treaty eventually came to nothing.
Parliament was also represented by John Crew 1st Baron Crew [aged 50], John Glynne [aged 46], Nathaniel Fiennes [aged 40], William Pierrepont of Thoresby [aged 40], Algernon Percy 10th Earl of Northumberland [aged 45], William Fiennes 1st Viscount Saye and Sele [aged 66], Philip Herbert 4th Earl Pembroke 1st Earl Montgomery [aged 63], William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury [aged 57], James Cranfield 2nd Earl Middlesex [aged 27] and Thomas Wenman 2nd Viscount Wenman [aged 52].
On 16th September 1651 James Cranfield 2nd Earl Middlesex [aged 30] died. His brother Lionel [aged 26] succeeded 3rd Earl Middlesex, 3rd Baron Cranfield of Cranfield in Bedfordshire.
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After 16th September 1651 Chichester Wrey 3rd Baronet [aged 23] and [his wife] Anne Bourchier Countess Middlesex [aged 20] were married. She by marriage Lady Wrey of Trebitch in Cornwall. She the daughter of Edward Bourchier 4th Earl Bath and Dorothy St John Countess Bath. They were fourth cousins.
Before 1652 John Weesop. Portrait of James Cranfield 2nd Earl Middlesex.
[his daughter] Elizabeth Cranfield was born to James Cranfield 2nd Earl Middlesex and Anne Bourchier Countess Middlesex. She married 7th November 1664 her fourth cousin John Egerton 3rd Earl Bridgewater, son of John Egerton 2nd Earl Bridgewater and Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Bridgewater, and had issue.
Grandfather: Thomas Cranfield 
James Cranfield 2nd Earl Middlesex
Grandfather: James Brett
mother: Anne Brett Countess Middlesex